CALL FOR CONTRIBUTION TO A BOOK ------------------------------------------------ Technologies supporting business solutions Corchuelo R., Ruiz Cort�s A., Wrembel R. (eds.) ------------------------------------------------
AIMS AND SCOPE ============== The aim of this book is to present the research that is being carried out at universities and in industries to solve the problems related to the construction of business applications using object-oriented technology, focusing on real-world industrial experiences and projects, as well as innovative infrastructures for building e-commerce solutions. The book aims also at developing a framework for better understanding the application of research achievements in modern business solutions like e-commerce, database technology, data integration, and data analysis. TOPICS ====== Topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following: * New trends: web services, advanced multiparty interaction models, m-commerce, web-based services for federated systems, electronic contacts, automated building of Service Level Agreements; * Electronic contracts: Service Level Agreements (SLAs), requirements elicitation, automated and semi-automated negotiation, monitoring; * Agents: personalization, information retrieval, data mining; * Multidisciplinary integration: multimedia, adaptive user interfaces, intelligent agents; * Application of object-oriented and object-relational databases in business; * New platforms: Microsoft .NET, Sun One, IBM Web Sphere; * Use of standard frameworks such as eCO, OBI, OTP or BBEC, focussing on the object-oriented technology used to put them in practice; * Run-time extensions of middlewares (CORBA, SunOne, .NET) for supporting web-based federated systems and quality-aware systems. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES ===================== The papers should not exceed 15 standard A4 pages (Times New Roman 11 pts., 12 pts. interline space) and should be e-mailed either as Word or PDF or PostScript documents to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] IMPORTANT DATES =============== Paper Submission: April 30, 2002 Notification of Acceptance: May 31, 2002 Camera-Ready Paper Due: June 30, 2002 REVIEWING ========= All proposals will be reviewed by three members of the scientific and the industrial committees. In order to ensure that only the high-quality contributions are published in the book, all proposals will be assigned to these PC members who have the broadest experience in the field. The proposals will be reviewed according to their originality, relevance to the topics of interest, presentation, significance to research, and correctness. PUBLISHING ========== Accepted papers will be published in a book in the "Advances in Computation: Theory and Practice" - ACTP series (http://www.cs.okstate.edu/~actp/), by Nova Science Books and Journals, New York, USA. =============================================================== Bartosz Bebel Instytut Informatyki Institute of Computing Science Politechniki Pozna�skiej Poznan University of Technology ul. Piotrowo 3A ul. Piotrowo 3A 60-965 Poznan 60-965 Poznan, POLAND e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel. : +48 61 665 25 29 +48 61 665 20 09 fax : +48 61 877 15 25 ===============================================================
